Accidents (was West Penn "Orange")

[John Swindler]

Yea, Fred, tried one of your routines about ten years ago when became 
utterly frustrated with debris piles.  Didn't realize how much had been 
transferred to Ed's trunk for transport until PTM sent thank you letter for 
11 xerox boxes of magazines and reports.  And that was the tail end of the 
discard effort.  A link?  Magazines/transfers/schedules helped support PTM, 
some reports will help future Pa transit research, and Ed has a good story 
about a PCC document and a phone call from PAT's South Hills Village 
maintenance manager a few days later.

John


>From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: Accidents (was West Penn "Orange")
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:17:59 -0400
>
>NOT A CHANCE!  IF I HAD THAT SOLUTION, I WOULD HAVE EARNED THE RIGHT TO
>PRINT MONEY.  About 20 years ago, I was working in the darkroom and had
>this sick feeling that the floor joists over head had a downward bow in
>them.  They did.  About 1/2 inch in mid span from the weight of the
>photos and books in the den immediately above.  The solution was jack
>posts and a steel girder.  Of course that did not stop the saving.  Ask
>Derrick or John or Ed.  It just continued to get Piled Higher and
>Deeper.  Book shelves moved into other rooms (where the public sees
>them, they are nice built in affairs).  The back bedroom upstairs has
>one shelving unit of European tramway books and another shelving unit of
>European travel books.  The overflow of United States travel and
>architecture and flower books are piled in another bedroom.  I got about
>fifteen feet of shelf space in July by hiding the Trains magazines in
>the library at Arden.  The PCC book research documents also went to
>Arden.  But all that does is reduce this joint from incredibly packed to
>extremely packed.
>
>Donald Galt wrote:
>
> > On 28 Sep 00, at 20:32, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Thank you.  Right on my own book shelf and I can't remember
> > > what hides in tons of paper!
> >
> > If you discover a solution to that problem, maybe you can help me
> > find my 1961 Dunedin trolleybus timetable book.
> >
> > Don
>

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